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Help! Dell Inspiron 'Dead' After BIOS Update
Put a new HDD in a Dell Inspiron 660. Installed the OS from a disk - W7 Home Premium. Installed the Ethernet driver. Did the seemingly 1000s of Windows updates. Then put back all the pictures, favorites destop wallpaper, etc. Then went to this page Support for Inspiron 660 | Drivers & downloads | Dell US
. I installed the Intel Chipset Driver. Then I did the same for the Vostro 270 System BIOS.
Once it finished I was prompted to reboot. I really didn't think there was any problem when it failed to boot immediately - I'd just updated the BIOS and there was probably some BIOS related housekeeping Windows needed to do....
When I checked back 40 minutes I saw the same grayish screen as before. So I turned it off. And then back on. Same grayish screen - no words ever appeared - no sounds. I tried tapping F8 as I powered on. Nothing. I put the W7 disk back in the optical drive and started it, thinking I'd do a system restore. Nothing happened. Oh wait, the BIOS probably no longer has the DVD as the first boot device. So I power on again, tapping F12 to get the Boot Menu. Nothing. Just the same gray screen.
I have no idea what to do next. If I have to, I'd grit my teeth and reinstall all over again. But how?
HELP!!!